Canadian Officer Co Respondent Named in Nickerson Divorce
Thomas W Nickerson a deep sea fisherman sues Nina Nickerson for divorce in Suffolk Divorce Court naming Charles Trask a lieutenant in a Canadian regiment now in France as co respondent The hearing was postponed to next fall due to a date error in the libel Nickerson accuses Nina of infidelity and desertion while she counters by claiming his desertion Mrs Nina Nickerson is the petitioner and Charles Trask is identified as co respondent in the libel
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Charles Trask
France
Thomas W. Nickerson
Nina
Jenney
Suffolk
Nickerson
Nina Nickerson
Former convict sergeant leads Siberian troops in Carpathian assault
In Petrograd on June 28 a former Siberian convict who rose from ranks to sergeant inspired a 50 man volunteer rush on German positions. He climbed a breastwork, hurled a bomb, sabred and shot two Germans. Despite heavy fire the attack carried on with 18 followers, causing panic and many prisoners captured before he was made an officer.
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Petrograd
Woody Carpathians
Siberia
Iis
Merchant Sailors Wanted for War Fleet
The United States Shipping Board based in Boston called for more sailors for the war merchant marine. It announced minimum seafaring experience needed for various grades aboard the fleet of blockade runners to supply armies and European civilians.
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United States Shipping Board
Boston Custom House
Europe
Free Navigation Schools Open to Crew and Officers
The article states that free navigation schools are open to promising material for crew members and officers. Masters of fishing and coasting schooners may become first mates on new cargo steamers rushed for war duty, with deck officers and engineers in high demand.
Split at Zionist sessions in Baltimore conference
Representatives of three Zionist societies seceded from a constitutional convention in Baltimore on June 28. Justice Brandeis watched as the Orders Mizrahei, Poals Zion, and the Sons of Zion left, with the latter briefly returning but declining involvement in legislation. Rabbi Wise warned that seceding groups would not be sustained without allegiance to Zionism first.
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Provisional Executive Committee For
General Zionist Affairs
Louis D. Brandeis
American Zionists
Order of the Sons of Zion
Joseph Barondeis
Educcation
New York
Mizrahei
Poals Zion
Barondess
Sons of Zion
Louis Lipsky
Stephen S. Wise
Provisional Committee
Lipsky
Rabbi Wise
Iowa Aviator James N Hall Killed in French Air Battle
Corporal James N Hall of Colfax Iowa and a Lafayette Escadrille member is believed killed after an aerial encounter with seven German planes. He was shot through the lung as his machine fell inside French lines. Hall, author of Kitchener's Mob, joined the American squadron recently after British service and prior journalism in Boston. His death follows a prior crash downing a German plane four days earlier.
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Paris
James N. Hall
Colfax
Iowa
Lafayette Escadrille
Herald
Hall
Dorme
Des Moines
James Norman Hall
France
Grinnell
Ta.) College
Boston
Elder-Dempster Liner Addah Sunk in German Submarine Attack
London dated June 28 reports the Elder-Dempster steamer Addah torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on June 15. The attack also hit the captain's boat, killing eight crew members. The Addah measured 4397 tons gross, 350 feet long, 48 feet beam, 20 feet deep, built in 19% at Newcastle.
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London
Elder-Dempster
Newcastle
U S Asked to Limit Supplies to Neutrals
London June 28 Reuters reports Great Britain has urged the United States to adopt allied style measures to curb neutral countries adjacent to the central powers from importing beyond their own needs. A formal reply is pending but favorable consideration is said to be given while mechanisms are perfected.
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London
Reuters Limited
Great Britain
United States
Belgian Priests Sent to German Prisons Report
Amsterdam dispatch notes that several priests from Cardinal Mercier’s entourage were arrested recently and imprisoned in Germany. One is Bishop Legraive of Malines, with twenty others imprisoned in Belgium. Cardinal Mercier’s private secretary was sentenced to a year for preaching on Whitsunday about Christian charity.
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Amsterdam
Telegraf
Cardinal Mercier
Belgium
Germany
Legraive
Malines
Danish Vessel Ivigtut Sunk Outside U Boat Zone
Copenhagen June 28. The 456 ton Danish steamer Ivigtut was sunk by a German submarine outside the prohibited zone. The captain reported the torpedo passed under the ship then the sub fired artillery, sending the vessel to the bottom. Survivors were left in boats 150 miles from land.
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Copenhagen
Ivigtur
Ivigtut
Worcester Man to Help Teach Canadian Soldiers
H Stuart Michie head of the Worcester Massachusetts Museum has offered three months service to assist in training returned soldiers in Canada in arts and crafts the proposal and acceptance were announced in Toronto today by the military hospital commissioners.
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Worcester
Toronto
H. Stuart Michie
Mass
Canada
Copper laborers get increase in wages
Salt Lake City Utah June 28 voluntary wage increase announced by Utah Copper Company grants skilled workers 25 cents more per day and unskilled laborers 20 cents more per day. The move comes amid ongoing strike rumors at Bingham where Trans-Atlantic mining interests operate.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Utah Copper Company
Treany Rantrals
Bingham
Man Taken as Forger of Drafts
A man using the name John J. Murray and claiming a Chicago address was arrested in a Boston hotel by Inspectors Mitchell and Murrey. He is charged with forging a draft on the New First National Bank of Columbus Ohio for $1000 and is believed wanted for defrauding Boston banks and other eastern cities. Police found 130 bank drafts in his room, a complete draft forging kit, and unconventional attire. Bail set at $5000. investigators expect further arrests.
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John J. Murray
Chicago
Boston
Mitchell
Murrey
First National Bank of
Columbus
United States
South
East
Pelletier
Murray
Mitchell and
Armstrong
Unsinkable Italian cargo boat designed to resist mines
Rome reports naval engineer Umberto Pugliere has designed an unsinkable cargo vessel accepted by the Italian ministry of marine. The Wessel displaces 10,300 tons and can carry 5,800 tons of cargo, featuring a double hull with space filled with coal to deter mines and torpedoes.
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Rome
Umberto Pugliere
Ministry of Marine
Revista Maritima
Wessel
Dorchester Parents Learn Meatless Dinner Prep
Dorchester High School Teachers and Parents Association hosted a lesson on preparing a meatless dinner led by Mrs Nellie Urte of the Women’s Municipal League. The session is part of Massachusetts public safety food conservation efforts.
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Dorchester High School Teachers’ and Parents Association
Nellie Urte
Women's Municipal League
Massachusetts Committee On Public Safety
Roosevelt to Speak at Moose Convention in Pittsburg
Pittsburg June 28 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to speak at the Loyal Order of Moose international convention to be held July 27 to 28. Roosevelt will deliver a public address on July 26, per James Davis director general of the order.
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Pittsburg
Theodore Roosevelt
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